![]() This rekindling of the historic Metaphysical Club address the ideas motivating a group of artists working to blur the line between art and the everyday. ![]() We might think of these six Chicago-based artists as neo-Pragmatists, sharing the philosophy’s values of experimentation, sensitivity to context, and the assertion that notions of truth are arrived at through lived experience. ![]() In addition to Peirce and James, membership in the club included Chauncey Wright, F.E. ![]() The event will feature presentations by Rozalinda Borcila, Joe Grimm, Liz Joynt-Sandberg, People Powered (Lora Lode & Kevin Kaempf), Bert Stabler and Fereshteh Toosi. The Metaphysical Club Pragmatism first received philosophical expression in the critical group discussions of the Metaphysical Club in the 1870s in Cambridge, Mass. It was here that American Pragmatism was born as a “half-ironic half-defiant” reproach to European metaphysics. It counted among its members future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, psychologist William James, and polymath Charles Sanders Peirce. The Metaphysical Club was a conversational philosophical club that the future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the philosopher and psychologist William James, and the philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce formed in January 1872 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and dissolved in December 1872. The InCUBATE-curated portion of the Cabinet of Curiosities series at the MCA, The Metaphysical Club, is a one-night-only re-convention of the historic conversational society that was active throughout the 1870s in Cambridge, MA. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The common thread running through all of these narratives is the evangelical fervour with which these people approach their mission, their unwavering faith in what they see as God’s plan, and their unquestioning willingness to accept the hardships, dangers and tragic outcomes as part of that plan. Thomas’s intricate, detailed narrative is related from many different perspectives, primarily the men leading the excursion and their wives. Thomas’s novel begins in the lead-up to the operation, providing background on the participants-all of them very young-showing how they came together, explaining how the plan was hatched and describing the complex mechanisms that finally set it into motion. The Waorani were known locally as the “Auca,” a derogatory term meaning “savage,” and the missionaries adopted this term, calling their action “Operation Auca.” Little was known about them or their way of life other than their itinerant practices and their tendency to defend themselves ferociously against outside encroachment. ![]() To this point, the Waorani’s exposure to the outside world was virtually nil. In 1956, a group of American missionaries set their sights on a group of indigenous people living in the Ecuadorian rainforest with the intention of converting them to Christianity. Joan Thomas’s GG-award winning fourth novel, Five Wives, based on actual events, is mainly set in the 1950s in Ecuador. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rick Riordan, the best-selling author of the Percy Jackson series, pumps up the action and suspense in The Lost Hero, the first book in The Heroes of Olympus series. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist they are all-including Leo-related to a god. ![]() What’s troubling is the curse everyone keeps talking about, and that a camper’s gone missing. Seriously, the place beats Wilderness School hands down, with its weapons training, monsters, and fine-looking girls. His new cabin at Camp Half-Blood is filled with them. Now her boyfriend doesn’t recognize her, and when a freak storm and strange creatures attack during a school field trip, she, Jason, and Leo are whisked away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood. Her father has been missing for three days, and her vivid nightmares reveal that he’s in terrible danger. ![]() Apparently she’s his girlfriend Piper, his best friend is a kid named Leo, and they’re all students in the Wilderness School, a boarding school for “bad kids.” What he did to end up here, Jason has no idea-except that everything seems very wrong. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up on a school bus holding hands with a girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() When her mother receives the call to say her fifteen-year-old daughter has been found, her joy is tinged with dread. Seven years after Abigail White went missing at a London tube station she walks into a police station gripping the hand of a young girl. When I had to account for everything I had done. “It was when it was over that all the rest began, all that led up to that night on the bridge. Thank you to HQ for the invitation to take part and the gifted copy of the novel.Īnnie White only looked away for a second, but that’s all it took to lose sight of her young daughter.Īnd as Anne struggles to connect with her teenage daughter, she begins to question how much Abigail remembers about the day she disappeared….Īddictive, edge-of-your-seat, dark women’s fiction perfect for fans of Heidi Perks, Sophie Hannah and Lisa Jewell. ![]() Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for this debut thriller. Genre: Psychological Thriller, Mystery, Suspense, Coming-of-Age Fiction ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The plot of the adaptation largely follows the first two Discworld novels, The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic. A third adaptation, Going Postal, followed in 2010 with more planned for the future. The production is the second adaptation of Pratchett's novels as a live-action film, following the successful release of Hogfather on Sky 1 over Christmas 2006. The film was well received by fans, but drew mixed reviews from critics, who generally praised the acting talent of the all-star cast, but criticised the film's script and direction. ![]() The first part drew audiences of 1.5 million, with the second part attracting up to 1.1 million viewers. Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic was broadcast on Sky One, and in high definition on Sky 1 HD, on Easter Sunday (23 March) and 24 March 2008. Vadim Jean both adapted the screenplay from Pratchett's original novels, and served as director. ![]() The fantasy film was produced for Sky1 by The Mob, a small British studio, starring David Jason, Sean Astin, Tim Curry, and Christopher Lee as the voice of Death. Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic is a fantasy- comedy two-part British television adaptation of the bestselling novels The Colour of Magic (1983) and The Light Fantastic (1986) by Terry Pratchett. ![]() ![]() ![]() Much more often, she’s neither of those things. Odell can read at times like a therapist or self-help author. It is the kind of hypothetical reframing away from unhelpful nostalgia and nihilism that a therapist might pose or one might read in a self-help book. ![]() But it makes it feel more like a field of possibility in which many paths are possible. “Like, it doesn’t make the future less scary. “How would that change how you felt about ?” she asks when our conversation goes toward a chapter in which she challenges readers to imagine being born in the exactly right time. It is a kind of compendium on time itself, one that attempts to take a less depressing and deterministic view of the climate future. Where How to Do Nothing was a treatise on redirecting one’s time away from the productivity-industrial complex and toward some stronger stuff, Odell’s latest goes even wider. It was just days before the publication of her new book, Saving Time: Discovering Life Beyond the Clock, her follow up to her 2019 bestseller How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, the accidental book of the pandemic. ![]() “What if you imagined that, actually, you were born at the exact right time?” Jenny Odell, artist and author, poses on a video call from her home in Oakland, California, pausing briefly to smile. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Both Max and Finn were likable characters and I connected to them and their ormance almost instantly. ![]() It was short and to the point, a bit too rushed at some points, but I never lacked for understanding of the lust and love between Max and Finn. NOTE: This book is a re-edited version, and will have additional scenes. Now he has to rely on the man he’s falling for to make sure it doesn’t end with him dying. Going back into a fire to rescue the town drunk is just the start. When he meets Finn Ryan in Ellery, he falls in lust that burns as hot as the fires an arsonist is setting in town.įinn Ryan is a cop, and somehow he’s attracted trouble. Max Harrison moved from the city to take up a role as assistant to the mayor, while also a volunteer firefighter. Rescuing a cop from a burning precinct is in Max’s job description falling in love was never part of the deal. ![]() ![]() The only thing that comes to mind immediately is the length of the two. A strange comparison, you say? Well I agree with you. Her Kristin Lavransdatter books are unquestionably works of massive scope on par with JRR Tolkien's Lord Of the Rings. She also won a Nobel Prize for her work, so there is that. Well, well, well, Miss Undset has made it onto my 10-star list. It is as great and as rich, as simple and as profound, as such a story should be." ![]() "This trilogy is the first great story founded upon the normal events of a normal woman's existence. One of the finest minds in European literature." ![]() "No other novelist, past or present, has bodied forth the medieval world with such richness and fullness of indisputable genius. It is also very probably the noblest work of fiction ever to have been inspired by the Catholic art of life." - Commonweal than any novel since Dostoievsky's Brothers Karamazov. "Sigrid Undset's trilogy embodies more of life, seen understandingly and seriously. "As a novel it must be ranked with the greatest the world knows today." - Montreal Star Contemporary Movements in European Literature, edited by William Rose and J. ![]() "The finest historical novel our 20th century has yet produced indeed it dwarfs most of the fiction of any kind that Europe has produced in the last twenty years." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This anthology is the first of its kind: for writers, an MFA in their pocket and, for readers, a treasure trove of exquisite writing. A laboratory for new fiction since its founding in 1953, The Paris Review has launched hundreds of careers while publishing some of the most inventive and best-loved stories of the last half century. What does it take to write a great short story? In Object Lessons, the new anthology from The Paris Review, twenty contemporary masters of the genre answer that question by sharing their favorite stories from the pages of The Paris Review with personalized introductions. Moderated by Paris Review editor Lorin Stein Panel discussion featuring authors Donald Antrim and David Means Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story St Joseph's University (Brooklyn Voices Series). ![]() ![]() ![]() Like Lev Grossman's The Magicians, only for horror instead of fantasy, the book examines the way we interact and fail to interact with each other, all bound together with genre delights that are mildly subverted even as they're adoringly celebrated.Įunice is the writer in her family, but Noah is Cosmology's focus and first-person narrator. It's a horror tale unafraid to tackle big issues of familial fealty, the architecture of fear, and the metaphysics of love, all while shocking the pants off the reader. ![]() That question lies at the heart of A Cosmology of Monsters, Shaun Hamill's debut novel. "How long until the world hollows me out?" Eunice Turner asks her younger brother Noah in one of her many letters to him - most of them suicide notes. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title A Cosmology of Monsters Author Shaun Hamill ![]() |